With the necessary level of support, as detailed in the INDC, Indonesia will reduce emissions by 41 % against the business as
usual scenario by 2030.
In its INDC, the country already said it would unconditionally reduce its emissions to a level 25 % below the business - as -
usual scenario by 2030, but it said it would set a more ambitious target of 40 % if it received financial resources and technology — possibly through REDD finance.
The aggregate of these provincial measures will reduce the country's coal consumption by 655 million tonnes from a business as
usual scenario by 2020.
The study warns that the new carbon market is unlikely to deliver South Korea's target of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 per cent below a business as
usual scenario by 2020.
Not exact matches
Arsenal think that the game is already won and have started thier
usual day dreaming
scenario of beating Chelsea just like Monaco who thought gunners would rip into them where alexis will score a worldly
by beating defensively frail Monaco, players who have left arsenal and played against the gunners have won 90 % of the matches with Wenger the joker who sold them.
The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as -
usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes
by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed
by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.
«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as
usual»
scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat
by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat
by 2100,» said Tiffany Anderson, lead author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.
40 %: expected loss
by 2050 of the region's original biodiversity under a «business as
usual»
scenario for climate change (with loss of 35 - 36 % expected under the three «pathways to sustainability»)
According to the report, under a «business as
usual»
scenario, climate change will be the fastest growing driver negatively impacting biodiversity
by 2050 in the Americas, becoming comparable to the pressures imposed
by land use change.
In addition to a business - as -
usual scenario, the team ran its simulations under two mitigation
scenarios, previously proposed
by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in which efforts are made to mitigate global warming to 2 and 3 degrees Celsius, relative to pre-industrial times.
The analysis follows previous studies that show that a business - as -
usual scenario, which assumes a continued growth of global emissions, would deliver a warming increase of 4.5 °C
by 2100.
Worldwide, that combination would generate 0.7 gigaton of carbon emissions annually
by midcentury, as opposed to 1.7 gigatons in the second one and 4.6 gigatons in a business - as -
usual scenario.
While some transportation researchers have suggested autonomous cars could cut emissions
by boosting driver efficiency, others, including Fulton and his colleagues, project that energy use and carbon emissions would increase over a business - as -
usual scenario because more people will travel farther.
In the business - as -
usual scenario, the bear population fell
by two - thirds
by 2050, but in the recovery
scenario the population declined only slightly (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09653).
In business - as -
usual scenarios, consumption — a proxy for economic growth — grows
by 1.6 to 3 percent per year over the 21st century.
According to the commission's own impact assessment, the union is on track to meet the current target: Under a «business - as -
usual»
scenario, total greenhouse gas emissions are already expected to drop
by 24 % in 2020 and 32 % in 2030 compared with 1990 levels.
The team's results suggest that
by the end of the century under a business - as -
usual scenario, rainfall in Jordan will decrease
by 30 percent, temperatures will increase
by 6 degrees Celsius, and the number and duration of droughts will double.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated that the average global warming in this century will rise
by 4 °C in a business - as -
usual scenario.
The benefits of this management
scenario become even clearer when compared to business as
usual, which is projected to reduce catch and profit
by 59 percent and 64 percent, respectively, over the same time frame.
By using simulations that were created by running the same model multiple times, with only tiny differences in the initial starting conditions, the scientists could examine the range of summertime temperatures we might expect in the future for the «business - as - usual» and reduced - emissions scenario
By using simulations that were created
by running the same model multiple times, with only tiny differences in the initial starting conditions, the scientists could examine the range of summertime temperatures we might expect in the future for the «business - as - usual» and reduced - emissions scenario
by running the same model multiple times, with only tiny differences in the initial starting conditions, the scientists could examine the range of summertime temperatures we might expect in the future for the «business - as -
usual» and reduced - emissions
scenarios.
In a business as
usual scenario, warming could go as high as 4.5 °C above pre-industrial temperatures
by 2100.
A «business - as -
usual» climate
scenario (RCP8.5) will lead to another 74 centimeters of global average sea - level rise
by 2100.
For example, under the «business - as -
usual» climate
scenario (called RCP8.5
by the UN IPCC, which assumes that emissions continue to grow unabated), there is a 50 per cent chance that local sea - level rise will exceed 22 centimeters at Oslo.
To derive the climate projections for this assessment, we employed 20 general circulation models to consider two
scenarios of global carbon emissions: one where atmospheric greenhouse gases are stabilized
by the end of the century and the other where it grows on its current path (the stabilization [RCP4.5] and business - as -
usual [RCP8.5] emission
scenarios, respectively).
Help reduce agriculture - related greenhouse gas emissions in rice - based farming systems
by at least 28.4 megatons carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent / year
by 2022 and
by a further 28.4 megatons CO2 equivalent / year
by 2030, compared to business - as -
usual scenarios.
This finding suggests that
by the end of the century, following a business as
usual CO2 emission
scenario, these animals might avoid functional environmental cues and become attracted to cues that provide no adaptive advantage or are potentially deleterious.
In Figure 4, Huber and Knutti break down the anthropogenic and natural forcings into their individual components to quantify the amount of warming caused
by each since the 1850s (Figure 4b), 1950s (4c), and projected from 2000 to 2050 using the IPCC SRES A2 emissions
scenario as business - as -
usual (4d).
Today's textiles economy is so wasteful that in a business - as -
usual scenario,
by 2050 we will have released over 20 million tonnes of plastic micro-fibres into the ocean.
The
usual scenario of Megamind being bested once again
by Metro Man goes awry.
The script flips the
usual scenario of having a cast of innocent characters available to be picked off, one
by one,
by the menacing antagonist.
These are all introduced and tied together
by a plot which, while not extremely creative or deep, does a good job of setting up such a
scenario, with a new villain named Cia to rival the
usual antagonist, Ganondorf.
Proving that 2009's The Hangover was a fluke, this sequel returns to filmmaker Todd Phillips» more
usual mean - spirited style, abandoning laughs for a series of painfully awkward
scenarios held together
by a contrived plot.Having finally...
Perhaps concerned that intelligent — albeit eccentric — parents wouldn't sell movie tickets, the screenwriters have updated this family of twelve plus two parents with the
usual new age
scenario: Dumb dad, career aggressive mother, and a few know - it - all children who, in this case, are led
by teen daughter Lorraine (Hillary Duff).
Best - case
scenario: Shot using anamorphic lenses that haven't been used since the»60s and with an original score
by Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight could see Tarantino surpass his
usual exploitation influences and make an old - fashioned Western epic worthy of Sergio Leone.
Scenario planners will be asked to remember everything they know about great teaching, but clear their minds of the
usual image of a school: 25 kids sitting at desks with a teacher in front — and all those teachers working
by themselves to serve their 25.
The game does have a few different modes outside of its Campaign and
usual death match modes, and while the real meat of the gameplay exists in its deathmatches, playing things like Puzzle Mode can offer a nice change of pace — giving you
scenarios with limited resources or special conditions that you have to meet
by using the tools at your disposal efficiently.
Unlike the majority of dating sims, the object of Shinobi Refle isn't so much to court Asuka, but to help her regain that «lost touch» as stated
by Honey ∞ Parade Games; the player must restore a melancholic Asuka to her
usual gleeful self through a series of roleplay
scenarios, including that of a J - Pop Idol, school tutor, or the series» standard shinobi - in - training.
Curiously, the Stern documents define «business - as -
usual»
by reference to the IPCC A2
scenario, and calculate the required reductions in emissions against this benchmark.
The only problem is adapation for a 4C warmer world may not be adequate for a 5C warmer world — which we (or our progeny) could be seeing
by the end of this century in a BAU (or greater than business - as -
usual... which is closer to reality)
scenario.
[Response:
By the end of the century temperatures could be higher by 3 or 4 or more degrees C under reasonable (i.e. not worst case) business as usual scenario
By the end of the century temperatures could be higher
by 3 or 4 or more degrees C under reasonable (i.e. not worst case) business as usual scenario
by 3 or 4 or more degrees C under reasonable (i.e. not worst case) business as
usual scenarios.
If nations continue to increase their emissions of greenhouse gases in a «business - as -
usual»
scenario, the U.S. ratio of daily record high to record low temperatures would increase to about 20 to 1
by midcentury and 50 to 1
by 2100.
The most famous of these is the «Business - as -
Usual»
scenario, also called IS92A, although this has been supplanted somewhat
by the SRES familiy of storylines that have been discussed here often.
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In a business - as -
usual scenario, the ocean is expected to contain 1 tonne of plastic for every 3 tonnes of fish
by 2025, and
by 2050, more plastics than fish (
by weight).
It describes some of the recent drought conditions, compares observed drought and modeled drought conditions from 1950 (observed was roughly 20 %) to 2000 (observed was roughly 30 %), then makes projections based upon climate models and the business as
usual SRES A2
scenario where roughly 50 % of the world's land will be experiencing drought
by 2100 at any given time.
«Our study indicates that if emissions follow a commonly used business - as -
usual scenario, there is a 93 percent chance that global warming will exceed 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit)
by the end of this century.
Climate models show that
by the end of this century, under a business - as -
usual emissions
scenario where there is no constraint in the amount of greenhouse gas emissions pumped into the atmosphere that ratio could climb to 50:1.
The ’10 year» horizon is the point
by which serious efforts will need to have started to move the trajectory of concentrations away from business - as -
usual towards the alternative
scenario if the ultimate warming is to stay below «dangerous levels».
Raw climate model results for a business - as -
usual scenario indicate that we can expect global temperatures to increase anywhere in the range of 5.8 and 10.6 degrees Fahrenheit (3.2 to 5.9 degrees Celsius) over preindustrial levels
by the end of the century — a difference of about a factor of two between the most - and least - severe projections.
It compared coal owners» business as
usual plans and member state phase - out policies with the International Energy Agency's Beyond 2 °C
Scenario (IEA B2DS), which phases out all coal power in the EU
by 2030 and gives a 50 % chance of limiting global warming to 1.75 °C.